De Tommaso repeats the win

14.05.2019: After winning Rally Appennino Reggiano, the driver from Varese wins also Rally Piancavallo and increase his leadership in the International Rally Cup PIRELLI 2019.
Rain, a lot of rain and wind. An annoyng rain

After winning Rally Appennino Reggiano, the driver from Varese wins also Rally Piancavallo and increase his leadership in the International Rally Cup PIRELLI 2019.

Rain, a lot of rain and wind. An annoyng rain that comes from a sky that looks like a November one and instead we are in May, anyway there is someone that didn't complain, it is Damiano DeTommaso who on the wet tarmac of the frist Special Stage of Rally Piancavallo started to built his win that was not so sure.

For the many climbs and for the quality of a competition led by Paolo Porro with the desire to recover what he has left at Rally Appennino Reggiano, and chased by Fofò Di Benedetto and Alessando Re in search of redemption and a Manuel Sossella decided to to return immediately to the leading role in the International Rally Cup - Pirelli.

Immediately in front of everyone, the Varese driver mortgaged the first place in the first of the two days of competition - the fatal one in Porro and Sossella - and in the second he demonstrated that he could also manage the advantage. Granting only pennies to Di Benedetto and Re, in a close struggle to conquer the second coin. Moral: after two of the five seasonal rounds, De Tommaso is increasingly firmly at the top of the tarmac series coordinated by Loriano Norcini. Behind him, at thirty-nine lengths, Re followed by Tosi, Roncoroni and Porro.

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